[Python-3000] Droping find/rfind? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Aug 25 03:15:01 CEST 2006

Tim Peters wrote:

Perhaps it has to do with the rest of his message ;-):

(which reminds me that speeding up handling of optional arguments to C functions would be an even better use of this energy)

Until a few moments ago, I didn't know that str.startswith() had any optional arguments, so I missed the significance of that.

In any case, I still find it surprising that this would make enough difference to outweigh a Python-level indexing and comparison...

-- Greg

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